Reusable ball units able to be repeatedly modeled

ABSTRACT

A reusable ball unit able to be repeatedly modeled in three dimensions, which include magnetic beads fully filled in a ball bag with excellent expansion and contracting ability. Wherein, the magnetic beads have suitable magnetic attraction, thereby, when they are pressed, hit or squeezed by hands to move, the magnetic beads in the ball bags can attract on another to endue the ball units with a contour. The ball units can be modeled repeatedly and stacked in taking advantage of magnetic attraction thereof; so that they can be used for modeling inventive three dimensional articles.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of the invention

[0002] The present invention is related to reusable ball units able tobe repeatedly modeled in three dimensions, they are especially suitableto be used as units for manual training, pottery modeling or toy brickstacking, each unit can be modeled repeatedly and stacked in takingadvantage of magnetic attraction thereof, so that they can be beneficialto intelligence.

[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art

[0004] The most popular intelligence toy available in the markets is aset of toy bricks; conventional toy bricks are comprised of a lot ofthree dimensional unit bricks of certain shape, they can be stacked orconnected with one another to form a desired three dimensional form, andcan be detached or repeatedly stacked to get an effect of fun beneficialto intelligence. And the conventional unit toy bricks have fixed shapes,they can not be modeled any more for other shapes, the three dimensionalforms built from them have very rough contours and are unable to expressinventive ideas in stacking and connecting. This is the disadvantage ofconventional toy bricks.

[0005] And more, conventional articles for manual training, potterymodeling or toy brick stacking, except those made of plastic clay orplastic ceramic material, are not made of material reusable or able tobe repeatedly modeled. Articles made of plastic clay or plastic ceramicmaterial are subjected to adhering to hands or other articles; evenmore, articles made of plastic clay or plastic ceramic material arelimited in usage, they are not totally suitable to use in a familyhaving children therein.

[0006] Material that renders a person fond of modeling to effectivelydevelop his inventive ideas to fabricate more perfect three dimensionalarticles full of intelligent effect, and fulfills the requirement thatarticles for manual training, pottery modeling or toy brick stackingmust have the ability of being modeled and must be easily tidied and arenot subjected to adhering to hands nor limited in usage has not beenfound. This has been a pity in the art.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0007] In view of the above stated disadvantages and trouble resided inthe conventional non plastic and plastic intelligence material, theinventor of the present invention develops, after elaborate study,reusable ball units able to be modeled in three dimensions and can besubstituted for the presently used toy bricks suitable also for manualtraining and pottery modeling.

[0008] The object of the present invention is to provide reusable ballunits able to be repeatedly modeled in three dimensions, they can bepressed, hit or squeezed by hands to give contour to the unit bricksaccording to ones inventive idea, and have the effect of stacking andconnecting and preventing from loosening, as well as can be easilytidied and are not subjected to adhering to hands nor limited in usage,can be substituted for the presently used toy bricks and suitable alsofor manual training and pottery modeling to render a person fond ofmodeling to effectively develop his inventive ideas to fabricatearticles with more perfect modeling full of intelligent effect.

[0009] To get the above object, the present invention in practice is toprovide ball bags made of plastic rubber with excellent expansion andcontracting ability and to fully fill therein a lot of magnetic beads toform the ball units.

[0010] Wherein, the magnetic beads have suitable magnetic attraction,thereby, when they are pressed, hit or squeezed by hands to move, themagnetic beads in the ball bags can attract one another to endue theball units with a contour.

[0011] The gathering positions of the magnetic beads will be changed inpursuance of squeezing force of fingers, i.e., the ball units have theability to be repeatedly remolded.

[0012] The magnetic beads have thereamong magnetic attraction and can bestacked, so that they can be connected to form an article with a threedimensional modeling.

[0013] The ball bags as the external film of the ball units can beendued with various colors to enhance fun and visual effect of thearticles formed.

[0014] The present invention will be apparent after reading the detaileddescription of the preferred embodiment thereof in reference to theaccompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0015]FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the ball units are receivedin a box;

[0016]FIG. 1a is a partially enlarged sectional view showing a unit ballof the present invention;

[0017]FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing magnetic attraction among themagnetic beads of the present invention;

[0018]FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing the magnetic beads of thepresent invention are pushed to roll under the action of an externalforce;

[0019]FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing a die is used to pile thereinball units;

[0020]FIG. 5 is a perspective schematic view showing a pyramid is formedby using the die of FIG. 4;

[0021]FIG. 6 is a perspective schematic view showing a three dimensionalarticle is formed by hand squeezing in the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0022] Referring to the FIG. 1 firstly, the present invention providesreusable ball units able to be repeatedly modeled in three dimensions.In practicing, a box 1 is provided to load therein a lot of ball units2, the box 1 can be provided thereon with a plurality of dies 11, 12,13, 14, 15 and 16 with various geometric contours for modeling the ballunits 2 to endue them with certain contours.

[0023] The ball units 2 are formed by providing ball bags 21 made ofplastic rubber to be fully filled therein a lot of magnetic beads 3 (asshown in FIG. 1a). The ball units 2 are each of the volume suitable forholding of a hand of a person. The ball bags 21 each has a thickness ofcirca 0.3-0.5 mm and made of plastic rubber with excellent expansion andcontracting ability, diameter of each magnetic bead 3 is about 1 mm, themagnetic beads 3 are all magnetized to have suitable magneticattraction, so that the magnetic beads 3, 3A, 3B and 3C in the ball bags21 can have suitable magnetic gathering attraction.

[0024] When a user presses, hits or squeezes a ball unit 2 by hands, themagnetic beads 3 in a ball bag 21 are exerted with an external forcewhich is much larger than the gathering attraction, and are extrudedexternally to make rolling of the magnetic beads 3, 3A, 3B and 3C at thepositions when the force exerts (as shown in FIG. 3). Thereafter, whenthe external force is removed, the magnetic beads 3, 3A, 3B and 3C willbe stay at their positions after extruding, they can also hold the ballbag 21, so that the ball unit 2 is fixed in shape to have the contourendued with by pressing and squeezing. In the embodiment of the presentinvention shown, a plurality of ball units 2 are placed into atriangular die 12 for being modeled (as shown in FIG. 4), the ball units2 attract one another by magnetism to crowd and stack to form apyramidic article 4 (as shown in FIG. 5), or the ball units 2 arepressed, hit or squeezed with hands to be modeled to form a threedimensional article 41 in the shape of a bowel (as shown in FIG. 6).Hence, by the ability of being modeled and stacked by magneticattraction of the ball units 2, the three dimensional articles 4 or 41made with the triangular die 12 or by hand squeezing have strength ofcoherence and are not subjected to loosening and collapsing. They arebeneficial to manual training or pottery modeling or can be substitutedfor toy brick stacking, and they can be beneficial to intelligence.

[0025] The ball bags 21 covering the ball units 2 can be endued withvarious colors to enhance fun and visual effect of the articles formed.And the ball units 2 can be modeled repeatedly to form blocks with thesame volume and shape; thereby they can be repeatedly used and arepractical and useful.

[0026] In conclusion, the reusable ball units able to be repeatedlymodeled in three dimensions of the present invention really have theeffect beneficial to intelligence in that they can be repeatedly modeledby a user by pressing, hitting or squeezing with hands, the ball unitscan be modeled stacked in taking advantage of magnetic attractionthereof, and are not subjected to loosening and collapsing nor aresubjected to adhering to hands or limited in usage. Having thusdescribed my invention which is novel and advanced, what I claim as newand desire to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States are:

1. A reusable ball unit able to be repeatedly modeled in threedimensions, comprising at least a ball bag and a lot of magnetic beads,said magnetic beads all have magnetic attraction and are fully filled insaid ball bag to make gathering of said magnetic beads.
 2. A reusableball unit able to be repeatedly modeled in three dimensions as claimedin claim 1, wherein said ball bag is made of thin plastic rubber filmwith excellent expansion and contracting ability.
 3. A reusable ballunit able to be repeatedly modeled in three dimensions as claimed inclaim 1, wherein said magnetic beads are moved when they are exertedwith an external force to render the contour of said ball units capableof being modeled.
 4. A reusable ball unit able to be repeatedly modeledin three dimensions as claimed in claim 1, wherein said ball unitsattract one another by magnetism to crowd and stack mutually.